Fantasy Sports Broke Our Brains and Nobody Noticed
Fantasy sports seemed like a harmless way for fans to feel closer to the game — draft your team, manage your roster, compete with friends. Except it fundamentally rewired how millions of people experience actual sports. We're examining how fantasy has changed player evaluation (now everyone's a salary cap expert), how it's created new forms of obsession and heartbreak, how it's made some players more valuable than others regardless of actual team success, and how it's turned sports into a year-round gambling ecosystem. This covers the rise of DFS (daily fantasy sports), the legal battles that…
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